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No sooner had Louisiana 5th District Rep. Ralph Abraham secured a first-ballot third-term victory Tuesday night than questions began about whether his next race will be for governor.

Abraham, R-Alto, cruised to an election night victory with 67 percent of the vote, followed by Jessee Carlton Fleenor, D-Loranger, with 30 percent; Billy Burkette, Independent-Pride, with 2 percent, and Kyle Randol, Libertarian-Monroe, with 1 percent.

"We're looking at it," Abraham said about the 2019 governor's race. "But I can't stress enough that this election was about serving as congressman, not governor."

Republican Baton Rouge businessman Eddie Rispone has already said he will challenge incumbent Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards; Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy said he will announce his intentions for 2019 before Dec. 1.

Abraham said others in the governor's race will have no impact on his decision.

"Whoever else runs won't figure into my equation," he said.

The congressman said he will make a decision about the governor's race "before the first of the year."

Meanwhile, Abraham said he will focus on unfinished business in the current Congress, including working to pass a new Farm Bill, more tax cuts to pair with those passed in 2016 and appropriating $23.4 billion "to start building that wall" on the southern U.S. border.

"Getting the Farm bill out of the Senate committee and getting it to the president's desk is my top priority," said Abraham, though he'll have little influence on pressing the Senate forward.

He said additional tax cuts for the middle class and corporations would turbo charge "an economy that's already roaring."

"I'd like to see us get all of this done before we leave for Christmas," Abraham said.

That's because everything starts from scratch when the new Congress convenes next year and the Republicans have lost the majority in the House.

If Abraham doesn't run for governor, he said he will run for a fourth term in Congress, hedging on a pledge before his first election to a three-term limit.

"Whether it's three or four or five, I'm still a term-limit guy," he said. "What that number is I can't say. I want to make sure when I do leave the things that are important to the 5th District have been done."

Fleenor, who had earned the Louisiana Democratic Party's endorsement in the race, thanked his followers on Twitter for beginning "the work of building a coalition of people from all different backgrounds ... This is only the beginning," he tweeted.